I have a philosophy, a belief, which I can see in many, many other directors that your early work is your best work, because you don't know what you're doing.

It's a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations.

I grew up in a city, I'm a city person - I go on holiday and I'm bored.

There's lots of things that can be solved with cash.

I've just been to the Taj Mahal which I'd never been to and I'm not a very romantic kind of guy but it is the most romantic thing I've ever seen.

The sun is the most important thing in everybody's life, whether you're a plant, an animal or a fish, and we take it for granted.

I don't want people to sit there and objectively watch the film. I want them to experience it as something that's under their skin, so you try to make the films really tactile.

I want people to leave the cinema feeling that something's been confirmed for them about life.

If you have to be persuaded about something, you shouldn't do it.

I learned with 'The Beach' that I'm a bit better lower down the radar.

The awards season gives a chance for independent films to have a bit of longevity in the press and the media.

Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.

A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.

Reality, the oppressor's tongue.

As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.

Liars are the cause of all the sins and crimes in the world.

You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.

Free from passion and desire, you have stripped the thorns from the stem.

We haven't had any more rain since it stopped raining.

How fortunate we are to exist in the moneyless economy of poetry! When you take money out of the equation, anything goes and nobody cares. It's truly free.

The return is one of the hardest shots to make when you come back from injury.